The Reel Rejects - HEREDITARY (2018) IS HORRIFYING!! First Time Watching Movie Review!

Episode Date: October 15, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:57 This week's videos are sponsored by Acorns. the money app that makes it simple and cheap to make small yet significant investments. Let's get hereditary. Find out what that means in three, two, one. If you're just joining us, we just experienced hereditary. I feel like Satan's in me.
Starting point is 00:01:25 Like we watch, we hurt so many things. We might have Satan in us. a little bit from this movie. Uh-huh. I need so much, like, joy after this. I need so many. I need to go stress eat in and out. I'm telling you that right now.
Starting point is 00:01:41 I see. I feel like, I'm going the opposite. I feel like I need the healthiest meal of pure, like, good energy. Like, I feel like I need a salad. Like, I think I need a... Salad. A very light meal.
Starting point is 00:01:53 Yeah. Sushi. Something just effervescent. Oh, my God. So, that's probably the best. movie I won't watch again. Oh my God. Like I I personally think that was a masterclass in horror. I agree. It's one of the scariest movies you ever seen my life. It's one of the most uncomfortable two hours I've experienced and I never want those visual my eyeballs again. Like
Starting point is 00:02:15 there's so many images I can be like good job. Nope. And I feel like I just live that for two hours. Two hours of good job. Nope. Nope. It was so good. Like it was terrifying. The acting is some of the best i've seen in in any genre much less of this genre not to disparage horror acting but the the level of drama and fear and pathos and even like the technical stuff like not blinking like just the overall acting yeah this movie doesn't work without everyone being like an 11 and balancing tones uh the directing we talked about at length being so impressive the writing uh it was so so tricky to walk the line of like what level of mysticism and how to make it plausible and like
Starting point is 00:03:01 Joni betraying me will haunt me forever the lighting was so fascinating because like the use of symmetry only worked because the light work I loved it and I need a nice happy separation from it I need to do something fun maybe a happy meal yeah like I need so I need joy oh my God that was
Starting point is 00:03:23 so much it was just an a thousand like just a thousand out of ten is what I give it and I appreciate so much the long shots that they have in this movie I mean I was so tense my back hurts and like my arms hurt like everything hurts because of the way that they shot this giving us first of all setting up in the beginning just just easing into it giving us giving us time with the characters without a lot of words. And then once the shit goes down, the way that they give us that exposition that we're wondering about with Tony and the sun of like, well, what are they saying to the son? Are they mad at him?
Starting point is 00:04:08 What's going on? That monologue is the way that they get it out. And it doesn't feel like exposition because it's a real A-F. And Tony does an amazing job at the multiple monologues she has in this. But the long shots is what I really, really appreciate. because those take so much rehearsal and time and like you got to it just takes so much more work than that one golden hour. Amazing. Like you got to plan the out of that because the fact that it was which I think was his probably his intention was to get the light in her eyes and then for it to settle enough which means it's just behind the mountain that it's not shining but we're still getting enough light to actually use the shot. I mean you you that's 10 minutes. You need to rely on like what you said. at 11 actors, like 11 out of 11, just amazing actors to go in and absolutely slay it. People that you absolutely believe in that go, yeah, you're a one take wonder.
Starting point is 00:05:04 Let's rock and roll. I mean, it's just in everything. And if you guys go back, it was, it was, it's not the easiest thing to see. But there is a huge master shot where we're really pulled out from the house and we're going in a slow crane shot. You notice more to the right of the screen, but to the left. Those freaking three people are in the field way back. And it's insane. That's what I was yelling about.
Starting point is 00:05:29 And I was like, am I going insane? I wasn't. Just everything about this movie and the detail. The detail that they had to put into the little miniatures that when she crushed it, I was upset that that kind of work had been lost. And the amount of tension of just the phone calls of like, when are we going to get this work and her post-it notes of get the job done. Everything about it was.
Starting point is 00:05:53 It was tension. Yeah. Every step of this movie, they knew exactly what they were doing, not only adding to the character's information in her life, that she's an artist with all of that stuff, but to the overall tension for the audience. And I will tell you that one of the most insane things is when that little girl gets decapitated by the poem.
Starting point is 00:06:17 There's so many scenes that are like the most traumatic scene I've seen in a long time in one movie. Like there's so many different scenes. that I was like, well, that's the most messed up thing I've ever seen all in one movie. And it never felt like it was doing it just to be shock value, but it was so shocking. Like, the story is shocking. So there are moments of shock. But the thing I usually struggle with movies like this is when it feels like it doesn't fit the movie.
Starting point is 00:06:40 This is horrific. So it all fits. It all fits. And I loved Jody until she betrayed me. Like the amount of times it like took a left turn that I wasn't expecting, the amount of super memorable moments. the sheer trauma of what everyone went through like this movie didn't let up for minute 10 like minute one like arguably we opened at the funeral
Starting point is 00:07:00 like it just stayed horrific and some of the artsy shots wouldn't have worked in a different film because it had to establish the bold swings to be artsy in those ways like the shot at the end when they did like the upside down shot like a lot of people do that in movies and you're like that's weird but this it was so art for them throughout that your world building is so
Starting point is 00:07:20 I agree and the shot when they're in the bedroom, when they're having a conversation, when she goes, I would never do that to you with her son. Yeah. And then all of a sudden, we're like, wait, why is he wet? And you're like, oh, it's the memory of when she poured all the oil all over and was going to burn him up. And that transition is just, I mean, every transition was amazing in this. They did not miss a beat. It was just, I don't know, from start to finish. It's a fabulous movie. But I love that transition too, because they're giving a story. telling us something because you you always say I mean in screenwriting and improv and stuff where it's like don't talk about it just show us like we're not going to talk about the character bring them in somebody be this character right but I like that they they talked about that very briefly and then they gave us that visual which really made it come to life because
Starting point is 00:08:13 they're having basically the same conversation again they probably had the exact same conversation after she poured it all over him and then again after the sister died it's just the cyclical like effect of it is insane it's just this movie is
Starting point is 00:08:31 and the Charlie stuff was so disconcerting like that kid actor was so and then like details I'm thinking of now of like they had to have a male and she didn't want to have the kid so the grandma forced her to because they she needed to pass on the demon because the grandma was the demon or like you know one of the eight big demons so that the kid was born to be possessed but then they possessed the daughter
Starting point is 00:08:59 because that was the milk of the demon like because she wouldn't let the grandma near the son exactly so the grandma had to get it so he had to wait until later to transfer that that demon over yeah and you had to kill the the girl who was terrifying the whole time because she was demon so I was right to kill that kid. Yep. She was demon. I mean, from the second she pops on screen, you're like, there's something wrong with that girl. Unpleasant to be around. I just did not like her on screen. I was like, no, this. And then the, like, the image here of the decapitated. Both of these are decapitated the movie. Love it. The poster gives away. It's insane. When she is on the ceiling, shut up. The, the, but like the reveal of the kid when he's, and you don't notice until you notice,
Starting point is 00:09:43 and then I freaked out. The scamper by was terrifying. That running away when he, because he turns his head and you're like, what are we going to see? It's a jump scare and then you're so much worse than a jump scare. And then there's plenty of good jump scares on top of all the non-jum scares. Oh, absolutely. I mean, when the kid starts smashing his face, when he looks, I don't know how they did that. With makeup, when his eyelashes are up here in his eye and then they made him have the mouth and start clicking like the sister. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:10:12 That makeup, that special effect, practical, probably mixed with special. special was amazing. And when he starts smashing his face, I mean, in that shot, you see blood, I get it. He really had to like, he didn't actually smash his face, but in the shot when he's leaning against the desk, you see all of his face like meshed up in there. And that's the actor that I'm like, yeah, y'all roll hard. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm excited to shout out today's sponsor because it is an app that I have been using since before we partnered with them, which just makes my job easy, and I just get to share with you something I really do love. And that is the Acorns app. Because money's involved, I researched them extensively to make
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Starting point is 00:12:58 She was so cute in that. I loved her. Which is so funny. If that's the same girl, oh my God. I think it is. I'm going to look. I mean, she's obviously fantastic. Fantastic actor.
Starting point is 00:13:11 But I just remember, like, I was so uncomfortable with her here. And I remember if that is the same girl, how much I loved her in that. Now we have to know. I'm looking it up. I'm not just on my phone, everyone. That little girl is she. Millie Shapiro. Okay.
Starting point is 00:13:23 It's not her. Oh, it's not her. Not her. She's only got. What else has she been in? She has been in Curse the True Nature of Hereditary, 20-minute documentary about Hereditary. Oh. A short called Monkey Bars, which came out in 2021.
Starting point is 00:13:35 Was it by Ari? No, Jacqueline Ziri. I would have thought so. Different. That's it. She needs to work more. She is terrifying. She is, truly.
Starting point is 00:13:42 Man. Wow. Man. This is insane. This bravo, Ari, and everyone who worked on this, I see that it has, on IMDB or whatever, it has four stars. I think it deserves five. Four is still very good.
Starting point is 00:13:59 Obviously, the people agree with us, but I really do think that this was one of the most tense movies I have watched. And you guys know me and rocks there are going through all the horror stuff. You thought you were desensitage. Remember the open of this? I am not. The two funniest things are going to be you thinking you were desensitized and then within 20 minutes you get the first scream. First scream.
Starting point is 00:14:19 And then loud. Me defending Jody is so funny in hindsight. He was like, thank you, Joni. I was like, everyone needs a Joni. I cannot wait for the comments. I know that people that love this movie are going to be like this. This is this guy. It's going to be so funny to see that I was begging for scenes of Jody.
Starting point is 00:14:36 I could be like, bring her back. And I was like, she seemed to. In the parking lot, I was like, no, she seems too happy. I, like, knew. Then when we saw her in the parking where she was like, I'm so, so good. And I'm like, oh, God, something's going on here. But I know women like that. Like, like, when.
Starting point is 00:14:52 When they're manic. Yeah, like, I agree. Yeah. But I even mean women that are like so excited to share their new hobby, like that thing. And like, you're right. Because I think men when they get manic are different about that thing. But like, there's a thing with women that are like, want to bring you into that thing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:08 really proud of discovering. So I've definitely seen people be like, I got this thing, let me share it with you. And that felt like that energy was really well done because I was like, I've seen that and I didn't even
Starting point is 00:15:16 consider the mania a negative. Man, that was good. I don't hang out with those demons. That's for the safety of everyone. That's for the best because Jody's a demon seminar. Yeah, this movie's incredible. It will haunt me.
Starting point is 00:15:29 I'd never, the image of her head on the ground with the ants. The ants. There's so many images that are seared in my mind. And then her head was the head on the king. That was her head. That was her head all, like, messed up with it. And you could barely notice it.
Starting point is 00:15:45 And you're like, oh, that's the king that we see in the book. And then I'm like, that's her head. Because she was like, the demon had her body the whole time. She was born of it. And then breastfeeding. And having that breastfeeding miniature, I can't be doing that. All of it. Amazing job, you guys.
Starting point is 00:16:01 Yeah, this movie. I feel like there's like four hours worth of terrifying and two-hour movie. Like there's so many scenes we're describing that are just, and the actual master class and filmmaking, even if it wasn't a, like, a great genre piece, even just the filmmaking was so incredible. The filmmaking aside is, is absolutely. It just, if you want to make a film, this is a really good proof in the pudding of how well if you can do a oneer or a long shot. How much it connects you to the audience. Gold. Like, and I know that it is difficult to really get it right. And you have to have, to get a oneer, it's really hard. The, the amount of lighting that you have
Starting point is 00:16:38 do to make sure that we're not seeing equipment and it's still well let by the time we go from around this corner and out of this room and we got to get the crane over here. I mean, they're putting us in where you're not imagining how much crew and how many people it took to make that shot work. It does take a lot. It's not like as effortless as it may seem on camera, but this is just a true testament to how fantastic they are. Yeah. Like I wish people did it more. what an experience this was hereditary this was I mean I see why
Starting point is 00:17:12 his name is so regarded I have not seen Mid Somar is it as traumatic I saw it so long ago it is yeah yeah maybe I don't want to see it because this was unpleasantly great
Starting point is 00:17:27 it's not as like horror as this it's more from what I remember more thriller but they're is still some weird ass terrifying stuff that happens that you're like what in the actual F
Starting point is 00:17:41 but it's not as like dark in this I saw it a while ago but boy oh boy is that a fantastic film as well this one messed me up well thank you for watching me suffer Tara and I need to go do our respective cleansings one with junk food one with
Starting point is 00:17:57 cleansing salad I feel like I just need some nutrients because I burn through them all my back hurts we're gonna go cleanse ourselves of this demon that was hereditary the studio the meat i feel like i'm just sage myself i'm gonna eat some sage yeah uh that was incredible i'm i'm really like i'm saying negative words but i'm saying them positively that was so rough an experience but such a good like that's impressive that that exists one of the best horror films i've ever seen um what an experience thank you for watching
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Starting point is 00:18:40 and I think this might be the best thing we've watched together. I absolutely hands down agree. Yeah, this was it. This was, man, my back hurts. All right. I'll see you guys soon. Bye.
Starting point is 00:18:49 Much love, Rejection.

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